Malfunction forces world’s largest nuclear reactor to shut down

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings has taken the precautionary measure following an alarm issue at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa facility

Japan’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant, the world’s largest, was shut down a day after restarting, the operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (Tepco) has said, citing a malfunction in the control rod monitoring system.

In March 2011, a powerful earthquake and an ensuing tsunami caused meltdowns at Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, also operated by Tepco. It was the most devastating such incident since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the Soviet Union. The Japanese government subsequently decided to…

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